For some years now, the unspoken rule has been to not allow superstar Canadian musician,
Drake, near your football team, jersey, or star player.
His songs may have gone gold hundreds of times, but when it comes to football, virtually everything
he touches turns to the opposite of gold.
Or so it seems.
Back in 2019, PSG defender, Kurzawa, was pictured with Drake before a league game against Lille.
PSG, who went into that game as clear favorites, ended up losing 5-1.
That same year, the musician met with Sergio Aguero who took a picture with him and handed
him his jersey.
Then boom!
Days later, he misses a penalty against Spurs in the Champions League quarter final, and
City are ultimately ousted from the tournament in very shocking fashion.
The curse also hit the other half of Manchester that same year.
The Grammy winner met with Pogba, Lingard, and Rashford on the same day in early 2019.
A triple threat?
Surely it was going to work a treat.
Man United’s next game was the FA Cup quarter final against Wolves, and if you remember,
Wolves sent them packing after beating them 2 goals to 1.
Aubameyang was the one who brought the curse to London after he attended a Drake concert
at the 02 arena and met with the Canadian superstar.
Of course, Arsenal lost their next game 1-nil to Everton.
In April of 2019, the curse landed in Germany.
Drake met with Jadon Sancho, who you know was playing for Dortmund back then.
At the time, Dortmund were at the top of the league going into a very important game against
Bayern.
The picture of Drake and Sancho circulated the internet, and days after, Bayern annihilated
Dortmund 5-nil and went on to win the Bundesliga title yet again.
2019 was probably the peak year of the Drake Curse in football.
It was so bad that the AS Roma English Twitter account jokingly announced that all their
players were banned from taking pictures with Champagne Papi until the end of that season.
But guess what!
The curse is potent even in other sports apart from football.
In 2018, Irish MMA fighter, Conor McGregor, shared a photo of himself standing with Drake
building up to his fight against Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Drake was such a huge fan of McGregor, that he even draped himself with the Irish flag
in that photo with the fighter.
Anyway, at this point, you surely already know what became of that fight.
McGregor was submitted by Khabib in the 4th round and lost the fight.
If you want, we can throw it all the way back to 2015 when Drake was rumored to be dating
American tennis star, Serena Williams.
That period, the pair were pictured together at different places and events.
One of those events was Serena’s U.S. Open final.
Drake was in the audience as Serena Williams played against Roberta Vinci who everybody
expected the American to beat.
But what they forgot to consider was that Vinci had the Drake Curse on her side.
And she ended up pulling off the shock of the year!
A personal favorite is probably the one that involved Anthony Joshua.
He was so confident going into his fight against Andy Ruiz Jr. in June 2019, that he took a
photo with Drake and posted it on social media with the caption “bout to break the curse”.
He, in fact, did not break the curse.
Only went further to strengthen its perceived potency.
In what was a huge shocker, he lost his belt to Ruiz after having been knocked down four
times!
Listen, we could go on and on about the Drake Curse and the victims it has had over the
years.
But the truth is, most of it is just pure sensationalism.
Sure, everything we have mentioned in this video so far is true, but there are some parts
the media won’t show you.
But you know, we’re not the media, so we will show you!
The whole Drake Curse thing became so huge in the world of football that a betting guide
website, OLBG, decided to look into it and get the real facts.
What did they find?
They found out that the Drake Curse is actually not as potent as people make it seem.
According to their research, only 31% of players who have met with Drake have gone on to lose
their next games, leaving a massive 69% coming out with positive results.
And you know, they didn’t just manufacture these numbers out of thin air, they are actually
verifiable, and we will give you some instances here.
Back in April of 2012, Drogba and Lampard met with Drake on separate occasions, and
each time, Chelsea won the subsequent game 2-1.
That is, against Benfica and Wigan respectively.
Notably, the following month, the London club went on to win their very first UEFA Champions
League trophy.
In 2014, Neymar met with the popstar and Barcelona won the following game 2-nil against Athletic
Bilbao.
In 2017, Daniel Sturridge met with Drake and Liverpool went on to win the subsequent game
2-nil against Spurs.
Then fast forward to 2020 when Sancho met with him again.
This time, Dortmund went on to win the game that followed that rendezvous 1-nil.
That was against Fortuna Dusseldorf.
And perhaps the most recent one we can think of, Drake meeting with his compatriot, Alphonso
Davies, in October last year.
Phonzy’s Bayern Munich won the very next game emphatically – 5-1 against Bayer Leverkusen.
We also remember April 2019 when Manchester United’s Spanish Twitter account hoped on
the Drake Curse to get through to the semi final of the Champions League.
They were to play Barcelona in the second leg of the quarter final after losing the
first leg 1-nil at Old Trafford.
So, the Twitter account posted a picture of Drake in a Barcelona jersey with the caption
being just a fingers crossed emoji, hoping that the Drake Curse would work against Barcelona
and help them go through.
But the United fans learned that day that the Drake Curse was a sham.
They ended up losing the second leg more emphatically than the first – 3-nil.
So, come on.
The facts are out there.
There’s really no curse.
If any footballer or athlete is watching, you can see there’s no reason to avoid taking
that picture with Drake or handing him a jersey.
All those things were just coincidences blown out of proportion by fans and the media.
Now finally, we’ll end with this.
We are not very big on superstitions and conspiracies, but you see that Anthony Joshua one?
Nah, it was just too funny.
He’s literally the only athlete that recognized the curse and he still fell to it in the most
dramatic manner.
Don’t get it twisted, we still think the curse isn’t real, but that AJ loss is working
overtime to convince us otherwise.
Anyway, after watching this video, what’s your stance?
Have we been able to convince you that it is a sham or do you still insist that the
Drake Curse is real?
Let us know what you think in the comments.
This is a no judgment zone.
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